November 15, 2013

Google defeats Author’s Guild in page-scanning suit; Author’s Guild vows to fight for another eight years because why not?

Alex Shephard

Yesterday, Google won the latest battle in its long, long legal war with the Author’s Guild, which accuses the tech giant of illegally making millions of books available for free… Read more »

Technology

Microsoft commissions a sci-fi anthology of stories inspired by...Microsoft — Liam O'Brien
How to keep repackaging Agatha Christie — Simon Reichley
Reading service aims to create the "YouTube of storytelling" — Chad Felix
Your bad habit is Collins Dictionary's word of the year — Zeljka Marosevic

So You Think You Can Write

Kirsten Reach

It was only a matter of time until writers made it onto reality television (I guess?), and Tom Rachman reports in the New York Times that the Italians have beat… Read more »

Lord Byron’s restaurant: only tame romantics need apply

Zeljka Marosevic

He was “mad, bad and dangerous to know” but a new restaurant located inside Lord Byron’s ancestral home is focussing on his romantic nature, and asking its staff to do… Read more »

When Difficult Patrons Happen to Good Librarians

Claire Kelley

Roz Warren has worked as a librarian in a Philadelphia public library for more than 10 years. In a blog post for Metropolis called “The #@%& Joys of Library Work”… Read more »

How to make a book, in 1925

Christopher King

This silent film, produced in 1925 by the FBI (that’s the Federation of British Industry), gives viewers an inside look at the printing process of the Oxford University Press. Beginning… Read more »